Public health agencies are poised to continue promoting face masks after COVID, and the record-low incidence of influenza from 2020 to 2021 has sparked a new wave of mask promotion.
Paul Offit, M.D. the director of the Vaccine Education Center in Philadelphia and member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, floated the idea on CNN on March 3.
“If we mask and social distance every winter, we will see a dramatic reduction in the flu, which usually causes hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths,” Offit said.
Offit referenced a graph showing cases of flu over the past two years.
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